your worst yoyo accident?

Not really an accident per se, but I was having a bad day so I decided to throw for awhile to see if I could de-stress. Stupidly, rather than doing easy, relaxing tricks, I started right in on a trick I was working on and still struggling with. Naturally, I couldn’t hit the trick to save my life and got even more frustrated. I took the yoyo off my finger and meant to throw it harmlessly into the couch cushion. Somehow, I missed an entire couch at point-blank range, and hit the end table next to the couch. Miraculously the table was undamaged, but the yoyo was completely trashed. It was a Navigator. One of the rings popped off and both the ring and the yoyo half bent so I couldn’t really put it back together in any meaningful way. So that yoyo’s retired now but I keep it visible near where I usually throw as a reminder.

One time I was fatally injured when a yoyo falling back to Earth from the International Space Station; hit me directly in the forehead!

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1a had a knot at the bottom of my atlas without knowing threw real hard to get some spin and it come back and numbed my fingers

2a was practicing loops to see how fast I could get and the right one hit me in the head so hard I had a knot on my head for a week

3a no troubles yet

4a offstring to the head

5a dice to the face on a 360

You really have to be careful with those Orbitals!

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I hit my funny bone 2 times and it caused half my arm to go numb. I almost whacked myself in the face trying to get a finger spin to return to my hand.

I️ hit my finger while doing horizontal with my hattori

Still have a small scar

My Basecamp Expedition gave me a nice scar on my forehead. It had quite the snag that I didn’t notice until I threw a breakaway and launched back into my face. Fortunately I avoided needing stitches.

Bleeding hand from practicing grinds on a dinged shutter, funny bone 4 times.

I hit the back of my throw hand one time so hard it knocked the breath out of me. I limped back to the couch with a severe pain in my hand that felt hot, throbbing, and prickley and sat there and tried to breathe again.
It was mostly useless for the next week, I couldnt open a jar of jelly to save my life. I couldnt make a fist, I couldnt wiggle my fingers without inducing really sharp pain. I don’t know what happened, Ive taken hundreds and hundreds of hits to the back of the hand, but there is this tiny area, maybe 10mm x 10mm square that, ever since, if something hits it, im done!
It only took a couple weeks to go away back to mostly normal, thankfully.

I swear its like it revealed a hidden weakness I have and now know about a vulnerability. It was really eye opening.

My glasses have a bunch of dings in them from yoyos

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Throwing while wearing a smart watch, thirty seconds into it and the watch screen is toast. Not one of my brightest moments.

Worst yoyo accident? Accidentally posting the same yoyo accident in two different “yoyo accident” threads!

I throw a yoyo that secretly had a not in it. swung around and hit me right in the ear. left my ear ringing all day.

I just love it how your yoyo string ‘secretly’ had a knot in it as if it was trying to hide it from you. I’m picturing a yoyo in my head with a sly look on it’s face.

Haha, it made me chuckle.

I have a pretty high pain threshold but I hit the bone in my lower arm so hard all I could do was sit and do a full body shake. No other accident hurt me that bad.

One time I mistimed my yoyo delivery, and my wife got the package! ;D

It’s still her favorite yoyo! :smiley:

Like so many of the other stories here. I had a snag I hadn’t noticed. But mine wasn’t super bad so the Joyride actually slept but as soon as I tried to get it on the string, it bound up and snapped back and I wasn’t ready to catch it. Hit me in my right eye. Not a square hit and not with enough force to do anything more than shock me but I set it down for the evening. I figured I’d pushed my luck enough.

Had a knot in my dv888, threw it, hit me directly in the eye. Blood went into my eye and I couldnt see for a while. Lots of eye doctor appointments later and I’m good to go! :wink:

P.S. I threw my dv888 again the day after this all happened :stuck_out_tongue:

Tried to do an offstring neck trick in a room with a very low ceiling… standing up. Yoyo, meet light bulb. Recently disbanded light bulb, meet floor.

Shattered a light while throwing in a room with a low ceiling. It wasn’t horrible but I had a lot of broken glass to pick up afterwards.

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